[None][feat] Paged causal K/V cache and cached attention for VisualGen

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Dev Engineer Review

The PR adds CausalKVCacheManager for a pinned prefix, rolling history, staged tokens, and causal-block layouts. The cuDNN and TRTLLM backends add paged cached-attention paths. Unsupported backends report no cache support, and Attention._attn_impl rejects cache use with those backends.

The cache API separates pool construction from rollout configuration in open(). It retains device state across close and reopen, and cleans up after a failed open. The CUDA operators add in-place row rotation, K/V slot scatter, the device-side block layout and a pool-to-pool slot copy.

The cache and backend paths have different limits. TRTLLM requires 32-token pages, while cuDNN accepts unquantized cache attention for a single video. Callers must provide the real-token seq_len when using a cache. Verify that callers check backend cache support and pass consistent sequence lengths. The objectives state that no model consumes the cache in this PR.

QA Engineer Review

The PR adds unit and multi-GPU tests for cache management, cached attention, Ulysses integration, and the CUDA operators. The tests cover cache rollover, causal-block visibility, padding, dirty-step overwrites, CUDA graph replay, reopen behavior, unsupported inputs, and operator validation. The objectives report 102 passed and 14 skipped cache and attention tests, plus 2 passed Ulysses tests on B200 and H100; these are author-reported results.

The new VisualGen integration tests appear in the B200, DGX B200, and H100 test-db lists. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the new cache and attention paths described here. No manual-QA list change is identified in the supplied summary.

Per-File QA Perspective

• cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/rotateRows.cu, cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/rotateRows.h: Verify in-place row rotation for supported element sizes, shifts, and strided rows. Check launch-error handling and no-op cases.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/scatterKvSlots.cu, cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/scatterKvSlots.h: Verify vector-width dispatch and copies to one or two destinations. Duplicate destination slots can race, and device slot indices are not range-checked.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/causalLayout.cu, cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/causalLayout.h: Verify the per-block layout (full pages, partial pages, committed_private, current_private, staged slots, refill) against the host model, and the pool-to-pool copy with sentinel entries.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/causalLayoutOp.cpp: Verify shape, dtype and scalar validation of causal_layout_ and copy_kv_slots_.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/CMakeLists.txt: The VisualGen common object library now includes the new operator wrappers. Verify these sources are included in the intended build targets.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/rotateRowsOp.cpp: Verify tensor shape, stride, device, and dtype checks, plus CUDA stream dispatch and no-op behavior.
• cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/scatterKvSlotsOp.cpp: Verify tensor validation and optional dst2 and src handling. Device-side slot bounds remain the caller’s responsibility.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cpp_custom_ops.py: Fake registrations were added for the four operators. Verify tracing and compile paths use signatures consistent with the CUDA operators.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/cudnn.py: Verify cached attention, causal-block writes, real-token seq_len, and zeroed padded outputs. The cache path rejects unsupported masks, quantization, inputs, and forward_with_lse.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/interface.py: Verify backend cache-support declarations and the shared forward keyword contract. Unsupported backends retain a default support value of False.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/parallel.py: Verify Ulysses preserves caller-provided real-token counts through exchange and uses the unfused Q/K/V path for cached calls. forward_async rejects cache inputs.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/backends/trtllm.py: Verify the 32-token-page restriction, metadata reuse and cleanup, and graph-capture behavior. First-time metadata creation during capture raises an error.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/cache/__init__.py: Verify CausalKVCacheManager is importable from the cache package.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/cache/kv_causal_cache.py: Verify pool sizing, open/close lifecycle, failed-open cleanup, commits, page rotation, private causal-block copies, and persistent device state across reopen.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention/attention.py: Verify cache calls require the real-token count and fail when the selected backend does not support the cache.
• tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml: Adds the VisualGen cached-attention test and both CUDA operator tests to the B200 CI list.
• tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml: Adds the Ulysses cached-attention test to the DGX B200 CI list.
• tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml: Adds the cached-attention and cache-manager tests to the H100 CI list.
• tests/microbenchmarks/bench_kv_causal_attention.py: Compares paged and dense attention variants against references and supports graph or eager timing. Benchmark measurements cited in the objectives are B200-only; they do not establish H100 performance.
• tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_causal_layout.py: Hand-computed layouts, the rotation reading the fixed tail from the moved page, staged tokens on partial pages, invalid arguments.
• tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_copy_kv_slots.py: Copies across layers, K/V and heads against a reference, sentinel entries, graph replay, invalid arguments.
• tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_rotate_rows.py: Covers rotation results, strided rows, invalid inputs, graph capture, compilation, large row counts, and extreme shifts. The supplied summary does not identify this test as an integration test-list entry.
• tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_scatter_kv_slots.py: Covers scatter results, strided inputs, optional destinations and source indices, graph replay, invalid arguments, and compilation. The supplied summary does not identify this test as an integration test-list entry.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_kv_causal_attention_ulysses.py: Covers two-GPU cached attention, cache rollover, causal blocks, padding, stored K/V values, head-count validation, and real sequence lengths. Listed in test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_kv_causal_attention.py: Covers cuDNN and TRTLLM cached attention, exact visible-key windows, padding, overwrites, graph replay, reopen behavior, TRTLLM restrictions, and metadata lifecycle. Listed in test-db/l0_b200.yml and test-db/l0_h100.yml.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_kv_causal_cache.py: Covers allocation, page tables, lifecycle, pinning, eviction, writes, causal-block layouts, validation, recovery, and memory accounting. Listed in test-db/l0_h100.yml.
• tests/unittest/utils/kv_causal_reference.py: Adds dense fp32 and exact-window references. Verify the reference window boundaries against the cache’s pinned-prefix and rolling-history semantics.

Description

Autoregressive video models generate a few latent frames at a time. Every chunk
attends to a fixed prefix (the text prompt), a sliding window of finished frames
and itself, through several denoising forwards and one frame-causal "clean" forward
whose K/V become history. Finished frames never change, so their K/V should be
computed once and kept. VisualGen has no K/V cache today; this PR adds one, plus
the attention paths that read it. No model uses it yet; the first consumer is a
follow-up PR.

Cache. CausalKVCacheManager (visual_gen/cache/kv_causal_cache.py) is a
subclass of KVCacheManagerV2, driven as one long-lived sequence:
[fixed region | rolling history window | staged tokens], where the staged tokens
are what forwards have written and not yet committed. The constructor owns the
pool (pool_tokens); open() owns a rollout's geometry.

• One pool and one page table for all layers; a page holds the same tokens in every
  layer, so eviction is one decision, not one per layer.
• open(pin_tokens, window_tokens, max_staged_tokens, causal_block_sizes) starts a
  rollout with its geometry inside the pool; the first pin_tokens committed tokens
  become the fixed region and are never evicted. A geometry's kernel-facing tensors
  are allocated the first time it is opened and kept at fixed addresses, so a graph
  captured over it replays when it is opened again (a new resolution is a new
  geometry on the same pool). write_range writes K/V at a logical position;
  commit(n) turns the n staged tokens into history and slides the window.
  Eviction is an in-place rotation of the page table on the device (new op
  trtllm::rotate_rows_), not a reallocation. Commit runs entirely on the device:
  a layout kernel (trtllm::causal_layout_) reads the table and rewrites every
  per-block tensor in place, and one pool-to-pool copy (trtllm::copy_kv_slots_)
  fills the private pages; no bytes cross from the host, no sync. The K/V pool and
  the cache's device tensors are reused across forwards.
• Frame-causal attention needs no mask: the staged tokens are cut into causal blocks
  that run as one ragged batch over the same table, each with its own key count.
  Block sizes are declared with the geometry (causal_block_sizes).
• Exact window: a page table can only start a key sequence at a page boundary, so
  each causal block gets a few private pages at the end of its row holding the
  visible slots of the up to three partly visible pages (fixed-region tail,
  window-start page, earlier blocks' tokens in the block's start page), then the
  block's own tokens. Both kernels read exactly the window in one launch, no mask,
  no duplicated key: reading the page-aligned resident window instead deviates from
  the fp32 exact-window reference by up to 0.006 (denoising) / 0.016 (clean pass);
  this layout shows an observed 0.0002, at the scale of bf16 rounding. The layout
  works for both backends because each block's new tokens stay the last keys of its
  row, which trtllm-gen requires (it writes them itself right after the cached
  length); cheaper layouts that end a row on prefix tokens work for cuDNN only.
• CUDA-graph safe: everything a kernel reads lives in persistent device tensors
  rewritten in place at commit; device state survives close()/open(). The host
  keeps a mirror of the table for host-addressed edits and never reads the GPU back;
  commit itself uploads nothing. A captured
  forward is keyed on the cache, the geometry, the real token count and the causal
  block size besides tensor shapes; commits change device contents and reuse the
  graph, so the staging offset and the commit count are never part of a key.
• Chunk K/V write: one kernel, new op trtllm::scatter_kv_slots_, reads the source
  once with any token/head stride (no copy for K/V sliced from a fused QKV
  projection) and writes each token to one or two pool slots.
• pool_tokens_for / pool_bytes_for (static) and pool_bytes give the pool a
  geometry needs and the device memory it takes, before anything is built, so a
  caller can size the pool for its largest geometry or against a memory budget. The pool asks V2 for no resume headroom (nothing is ever
  suspended), and the figure includes the allocator's chunk rounding; a test
  measures the real allocation with the driver's free-memory counter. zero_values zeroes V of a logical range. Edits through
  write_range / zero_values to committed tokens also update the private copies
  the block rows read, so an edit takes effect on the next forward, not the next
  commit.
• Batch size 1 by construction; the cache knows nothing about parallelism (built
  with the K/V heads this rank holds).

Attention.

• cuDNN (_run_paged): cuDNN paged SDPA over the per-block rows. Any power-of-two
  page size.
• TRTLLM (_forward_with_kv_cache): trtllm-gen paged context kernel over the same
  rows; accepts separate q/k/v or one packed QKV tensor (no split copies). 32-token
  pages only: every shipped paged context cubin is P32. Its attention metadata is
  built once per (cache, geometry, blocking) and bound to the cache's own tensors
  (the rows in the op's block-offset encoding, the per-block key counts), so like
  cuDNN it needs no refresh between a commit and a graph replay.
• seq_len on the cache path is the global number of real query tokens of this
  forward, before sequence sharding, and the caller must pass it. The Attention
  module otherwise derives seq_len from q.shape[1], which under Ulysses is one
  rank's shard and may carry padding rows the sharder added so the sequence splits
  evenly. Without a cache those rows are attended and their outputs dropped; with a
  cache the backend writes this forward's K/V into the cache, and a padding row
  staged as history would be attended by every later forward of the rollout. The
  tensor carries no marker of where the real tokens end; only the caller knows. So
  the module keeps a caller-supplied seq_len when a cache is present, padding rows
  are neither staged nor attended and come back zero, and after the clean pass the
  caller commits the real count. The meaning matches the engine's attention
  metadata: seq_lens is this step's input tokens; the key count is a separate,
  growing quantity held in device tensors.
• Backends declare support_kv_cache(); the Attention module and Ulysses refuse a
  cache on any backend without support instead of silently dropping it through
  **kwargs.
• Ulysses: with a cache the caller's seq_len is passed through untouched; the
  cache path and grouped-query models use the per-tensor all-to-all (the fused path
  stacks q/k/v and needs equal head counts). Async Ulysses refuses a cache.
• attention/attention.py: the fused packed QK norm + RoPE wrapper passes the
  rank-local head counts, so it runs under tensor parallelism with per-head norm
  weights. Full-dim norm weights under TP raise.
• KVCacheManagerV2._remove_kv_cache(request_id): the counterpart of
  _create_kv_cache. V2's request teardown and guard-page bail-outs call it, and so
  does the causal cache for its rollout sequence; a repeated call is a no-op.
• Depends on [None][fix] Keep a one-rank DeviceMeshTopology off the job-wide device mesh #20021 (device_mesh.py: a one-rank Mapping must not borrow a
  dimension of the job-wide mesh). The cache hands KVCacheManagerV2 a one-rank
  Mapping; without [None][fix] Keep a one-rank DeviceMeshTopology off the job-wide device mesh #20021, rank 1 under Ulysses with MPI disabled read pipeline
  rank 1 from the job's mesh.

Performance, B200, CUPTI with L2 flushed, bf16, 32 query / 8 K/V heads of 128,
1576 query tokens over 39,912 keys (prompt 512 + 96 frames of history, the
benchmark's default, + chunk; the model's window is 95 frames plus the chunk's own
frame), K/V write included. Error is max |out - fp32 exact-window reference|.

one layer, one forward	cuDNN	trtllm-gen
denoising forward (one causal block), median	940 µs	1092 µs
error vs exact window	0.0002	0.0002

per chunk, 36 layers (CUDA graph per forward)	cuDNN	trtllm-gen
4 denoising forwards	151.1 ms	168.9 ms
clean pass (4 causal blocks, one launch per layer)	38.9 ms	44.2 ms
commit, first to last kernel	0.06 ms	0.05 ms
commit, host wall	0.08 ms	0.06 ms

Commit is six launches and no host-to-device traffic (before the device-side layout: 12 launches and copies, 0.46 ms first to last kernel, 0.47 ms host wall).

For reference at the same geometry: one contiguous buffer + cuDNN dense 961 µs;
concatenating history per forward + dense 1040 µs.

Reproduce:

python tests/microbenchmarks/bench_kv_causal_attention.py
python tests/microbenchmarks/bench_kv_causal_attention.py --chunk-cycle --layers 36 --backend cudnn_paged
python tests/microbenchmarks/bench_kv_causal_attention.py --chunk-cycle --layers 36 --backend trtllm

Test Coverage

• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_kv_causal_cache.py (H100 pre-merge):
  geometry, pin, eviction, reopen, exact per-block rows in odd geometries,
  write_range/write_staged/zero_values against per-token references, pool sizing
  measured against the GPU, bad-geometry rejection, a failed open() leaving nothing
  open, per-geometry device state across geometry switches. Per-layer stamped data, so a layer mix-up fails.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_kv_causal_attention.py (B200 and H100
  pre-merge): both backends against an fp32 exact-window reference across rollouts,
  an exact visible-key-set test (q=0, one-hot V) with the window filling and full,
  padding, causal blocks, packed vs separate QKV, CUDA graph replay across commits
  (including capture before the window fills and a reopen with a longer pinned
  prefix), a run through VisualGen's CUDAGraphRunner with the real token count,
  block size and cache as graph keys, torch.compile, refusals.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_kv_causal_attention_ulysses.py
  (DGX_B200 multi-GPU pre-merge): 2-rank Ulysses on both backends, padded first
  chunk, through the Attention module.
• tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_rotate_rows.py,
  test_scatter_kv_slots.py, test_causal_layout.py, test_copy_kv_slots.py (B200
  pre-merge, plus the H100 directory entry): ops
  against torch references, dtypes, strides, aliasing, CUDA graphs.
• tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/kernels/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_fused_dit_qk_norm_rope.py:
  a rank's slice of the packed QK norm + RoPE matches the full computation (tp 2 and 4).
• tests/microbenchmarks/bench_kv_causal_attention.py: CUPTI-timed; before timing,
  the paged variants are checked against the fp32 exact-window reference and the
  dense baselines against the resident-window reference. The fp32 exact-window reference the
  tests and the bench compare against is one module,
  tests/unittest/utils/kv_causal_reference.py.

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Walkthrough

This pull request adds a paged causal K/V cache and cuDNN and TRTLLM attention paths. It also adds CUDA row-rotation and K/V slot-scatter operators, updates single-rank mapping and cache teardown behavior, and adds tests and a benchmark.

Changes

Paged causal K/V attention

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache geometry, lifecycle, and writes tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/cache/kv_causal_cache.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/cache/__init__.py, tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_kv_causal_cache.py	Adds cache geometry and pool-sizing APIs, lifecycle operations, page-table layouts, staged writes, commits, history eviction, and cache-index accessors. Tests cover layout, allocation, writes, eviction, and geometry validation.
Paged attention execution tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/attention_backend/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/modules/attention.py	Adds paged-cache attention to cuDNN and TRTLLM backends. Cache calls use real-token sequence lengths, stage K/V data, and zero padded output rows. Ulysses validates cached sequence lengths and backend support.
Cache attention validation and benchmark tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/*, tests/unittest/utils/kv_causal_reference.py, tests/microbenchmarks/bench_kv_causal_attention.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/*	Adds cache, attention, and multi-GPU reference tests, plus a benchmark for paged and dense attention paths with correctness checks and timing modes.

CUDA row and K/V operators

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Row rotation operator and tests cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/rotateRows.*, cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/rotateRowsOp.cpp, cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/CMakeLists.txt, tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cpp_custom_ops.py, tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_rotate_rows.py	Adds an in-place row-rotation operator for supported element sizes. The CUDA implementation uses three reversals and supports row counts beyond the grid y-dimension limit. Tests cover shifts, strided rows, invalid inputs, graph replay, and compilation.
K/V slot scatter operator and tests cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/scatterKvSlots.*, cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/scatterKvSlotsOp.cpp, cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/CMakeLists.txt, tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cpp_custom_ops.py, tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel_hw_agnostic/test_scatter_kv_slots.py	Adds a CUDA operator that copies K/V vectors to one or two destination slots, with optional source indices. The operator validates tensor inputs and supports strided K/V data.

Mapping and cache teardown behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Single-rank mapping behavior tensorrt_llm/_torch/device_mesh.py, tests/unittest/_torch/ray_orchestrator/multi_gpu/test_mapping.py	Uses the world process group only for an initialized world of size one. For single-rank mappings, reuses an existing named mesh dimension only when its size is one.
KV cache teardown tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/kv_cache/kv_cache_manager_v2.py	Centralizes cache removal, close, stats cleanup, and index-slot release for reservation failure and resource cleanup paths.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AttentionModule as Attention._attn_impl
  participant AttentionBackend as CuDNNAttention or TrtllmAttention
  participant Cache as CausalKVCacheManager
  AttentionModule->>AttentionBackend: Pass kv_cache and real-token seq_len
  AttentionBackend->>Cache: Write staged K/V and read page tables and lengths
  AttentionBackend->>AttentionBackend: Run paged attention
  AttentionBackend-->>AttentionModule: Return attention output

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Do not pass SingleProcessGroup to torch.distributed collectives.

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[ishovkun]

Not reachable, and the new behavior is the safer of the two. SingleProcessGroup is handed out only when no device mesh exists and the mapping has one rank. The CFG all-gather in pipeline.py runs with cfg_size >= 2, i.e. a multi-rank mapping, and a multi-rank VisualGen mapping always resolves its groups through the mesh (_group() in visual_gen/mapping.py). The cache's own one-rank Mapping never hands a group to a collective. Before this change a one-rank mapping inside a larger job got dist.group.WORLD, a real process group of the wrong size, so a collective on it would have run on the whole job; now it gets an object that fails at the call. The comment at this line now says so (9637e9b).

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[ishovkun]

Leaving it on H100 only, on purpose: l0_h100.yml asks that tests without a Blackwell dependence run on Hopper to spare B200 capacity, and the cache lifecycle test has none (no attention kernel; only the paged pool and the two small ops, which are themselves listed on B200). test_kv_causal_attention.py, which does depend on the trtllm-gen cubins, runs on both.

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Re the nitpick on empty shapes: added (3, 0) and (0, 4) to this shape matrix in 9637e9b. The op returns before launching when there are no rows or at most one column, so both are no-ops; all 198 resulting cases (dtypes × shifts) pass on B200.

[ishovkun]

Re the nitpick on the missing torch.cuda.synchronize() here and in test_extreme_shift: not needed. assert_close reads the tensors on the stream the op ran on, so ordering is guaranteed; the explicit synchronize in the other tests only serves to surface a kernel fault at the right line, which these two cases do not need. Leaving as is.

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Check that empty inputs do not launch a kernel.

The (3, 0) and (0, 4) cases check the result against torch.roll, but they can still pass if the operation launches a zero-work CUDA kernel. Add an assertion that detects launches for these cases. This follows the PR objective that empty inputs must be no-ops without a kernel launch.

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Deferring this one. What callers can rely on is that an empty input returns the right (empty) result without raising, and that is what these cases check. Whether a zero-work kernel is launched on the way is an implementation detail of the op's early return (rotateRowsOp.cpp: if (rows == 0 || cols <= 1) return;), not a property anyone depends on; pinning it would need a profiler hook in a unit test to guard a guarantee the interface does not make.

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Add a V2 teardown regression test for early slot release.

The existing tests cover direct slot release and a standalone IndexMapper guard, but they do not exercise KVCacheManagerV2._remove_kv_cache() after early release. Add a test in tests/unittest/_torch/executor/kv_cache/test_kv_cache_v2_scheduler.py that creates a cache, calls release_index_slot(), calls _remove_kv_cache() twice, and asserts that the cache is removed, the slot can be reused, and remove_sequence() is called only once.

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Scope correction: This PR still requires attention review. The VisualGen path migration in #20214 incorrectly caused the earlier inactive status. That status is corrected; the previous review owner and review history are retained.

@PerkzZheng, could you help to review this PR as trt-llm-torch-attention-devs? Thanks~

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Components	backends/trtllm (22%); unmapped (16%); backends/shared (8%); runtime/parallelism (8%); modules/visualgen-attention (8%); runtime/kv-cache/lifecycle (4%); kernels/auxiliary (16%); native-ops/bindings (10%); integration/attention-tests (6%); integration/build-config (2%)
Tags	algorithm:dense (100%); phase:prefill (100%); features:paged-kv (60%); features:cuda-graphs (20%); features:context-parallelism (10%); features:rope (5%); features:qk-norm (5%); context:visualgen (100%)
PR effort	13 points — Review requires tracing cache visibility, slot addressing, backend metadata, graph lifetime and distributed padding as one contract. The visible architecture warrants deep review independently of file count.
Importance	Important — Introduces a cross-backend paged-attention contract with block-causal visibility, mutable device metadata and graph replay. Raw slot writes and real-token padding boundaries are sensitive correctness interfaces.
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Outstanding points at selection	52 → 65 (+13)
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[nvpohanh]

[by Claude Code] @lowsfer Could you review this PR? Thanks!

[xrq-phys]

Reviewed:

• Attention interfact: LGTM.
• CausalKVCacheManager: Ctor and shape arithmetics LGTM. (suggestions are minor)

Will do tomorrow:

• cudnn.py and trtllm.py

[xrq-phys]

In the future, we may want to always respect seq_len if its passed (regardless of KV cache presence). But for now, let's keep it as-is.

[xrq-phys]

Non-blocking: Maybe we can move this restriction to backend wrapper? Just in case we want to support unaligned page size in the future.

[ishovkun]

The power-of-two requirement is the cache’s own now, not a backend’s: the commit-time layout kernel (causal_layout_) computes page and slot with shifts and masks, and its op rejects other page sizes. Backends add their limits on top (trtllm-gen needs 32-token pages, cuDNN takes any power of two).

[xrq-phys]

Non-blocking. Same as above. Feel free to click resolve.

[ishovkun]

Same reasoning as above: the requirement comes from the cache’s commit-time layout kernel, not the backends, so it stays at construction. The comment here was out of date, fixed to say so.

[xrq-phys]

Sorry I'm still learning from your code and design doc: IIUC, from your design doc, the 3 types of non-fully-visible pages:

1. where the fixed region ends (evicted tokens can follow it) -- this doesn't need to count here as it's the same value for all blocks
2. where the blocks window starts -- counts here. contributes to the additional tokens a block needs to hold in its private page
3. where the block starts (also where the blocks window effectively ends) -- counts

Max possible value from 2 and 3 forms self._start_entries. Is that correct? If so, would it be better to name the variable as something like:

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	# Staged tokens a block's private pages hold besides its own: at most two
	# partial pages of earlier blocks, where its window starts and where it starts.
	self._start_entries = 2 * (tpb - 1)
	# A block's private pages need to hold non-fixed tokens besides it's own staged tokens:
	# these type of tokens come from at most 2 pages: where the block's window starts and
	# where the block itself starts.
	self._nonfixed_private_entries = 2 * (tpb - 1)

[ishovkun]

The 2 × (tpb − 1) bound is right, but it covers only tokens written by the same forward. Committed tokens on partial pages are copied once per commit instead, up to 3 × (tpb − 1) per block.
To make that split explicit, I coined two names for these regions in private pages and update both the code and the design doc:

• committed_private: copies of committed tokens, made at commit;
• current_private: copies of earlier blocks' tokens of the same forward, written every forward.

Renames in 34d3eb80bc:

Before	After
_start_entries	_current_private
extra_src / extra_dst (layout fields, causal_layout_ args)	current_private_src / current_private_dst
piece_src / piece_dst (layout fields, causal_layout_ args)	committed_private_src / committed_private_dst
extraSrc / extraDst (kernel)	currentPrivateSrc / currentPrivateDst
pieceSrc / pieceDst (kernel)	committedPrivateSrc / committedPrivateDst
numCommittedSlots (kernel plan)	numCommittedPrivate
piece_src / piece_dst (whole commit copy list: refill plus every block's committed_private)	commit_copy_src / commit_copy_dst
_mirror_rows (host view of committed_private for write_range / zero_values)	_committed_private_rows
_piece_rows	_layer_pool_rows

[xrq-phys]

Non-blocking:

Somehow personal wording preference....

Suggested change

	# [max_staged_tokens] int64 slot ids (view_page * tokens_per_page + slot) of the
	# staged tokens' logical positions, the shared pages later blocks and later
	# commits read.
	# [max_staged_tokens] maps staged tokens' logical positions to int64 slot ids
	# (view_page * tokens_per_page + slot). The shared pages later blocks and later
	# commits read.

[ishovkun]

Agreed it read awkwardly.

[xrq-phys]

cudnn.py LGTM.
Token copying & paged attention is consistent with the API & doc. For cuDNN, input structure is flat Q + paged KV, so the flat KV needs to be copied to the KV cache before attention.

Comments are all variable name & comment suggestions.

[xrq-phys]

I'm happy with this dataclass merged as-is for now, but in the future I'd like it to merge into _CuDNNProblemShape with non-KV-cached run setting num_causal_blocks=0; causal_block_size=0; num_pages=0; table_len=0; tokens_per_page=0; q_strides=(); page_strides=()

[xrq-phys]

(non-blocking, of course)

[xrq-phys]

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	io = _torch_to_cudnn_dtype(io_dtype)
	io_dtype = _torch_to_cudnn_dtype(io_dtype)

[xrq-phys]

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	o_t.set_output(True).set_dim(q_dims).set_stride(o_strides).set_data_type(io)
	o_t.set_output(True).set_dim(q_dims).set_stride(o_strides).set_data_type(io_dtype)

[xrq-phys]

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	io_data_type=io,
	io_data_type=io_dtype,

[xrq-phys]

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	q_t = graph.tensor(name="q", dim=q_dims, stride=list(s.q_strides), data_type=io)
	k_t = graph.tensor(
	name="k", dim=kv_container_dims, stride=list(s.page_stride), data_type=io
	)
	v_t = graph.tensor(
	name="v", dim=kv_container_dims, stride=list(s.page_stride), data_type=io
	)
	q_t = graph.tensor(name="q", dim=q_dims, stride=list(s.q_strides), data_type=io_dtype)
	k_t = graph.tensor(
	name="k", dim=kv_container_dims, stride=list(s.page_strides), data_type=io_dtype
	)
	v_t = graph.tensor(
	name="v", dim=kv_container_dims, stride=list(s.page_strides), data_type=io_dtype
	)

[xrq-phys]

We have o_strides below.

Suggested change

	``page_stride`` is the stride of one K (or V) block inside the pool, so the
	``page_strides`` is the stride of one K (or V) block inside the pool, so the

[xrq-phys]

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	first ``seq_len`` rows are real (``None``: all of them); rows past that are
	first ``seq_len`` rows are real (``None``: all of them are real); rows past that are

[xrq-phys]

Suggested change

	seq_len: Keyword understood by the ``kv_cache`` path only. Number of real
	tokens; absent, all ``S_q`` rows are real. When smaller than ``S_q``,
	the rows past it are padding added so the sequence splits evenly
	across ranks; they are neither written to the cache nor attended, and
	their output rows are zero.
	causal_block_size: Keyword understood by the ``kv_cache`` path only. Cuts
	the real tokens into consecutive causal blocks: full attention within a
	block, causal across blocks. Use it when the cache must hold each
	block's K/V as if the blocks had been generated one at a time, so later
	blocks never leak into earlier ones. Absent: one causal block.
	seq_len: Epecifies number of real tokens when ``kv_cache``is present;
	all ``S_q`` rows are real if ``None`` is passed or ``kv_cache`` is absent.
	causal_block_size: Specifies how the real tokens will be cut into consecutive
	causal blocks: full attention within a block, causal across blocks. Ignored if
	``kv_cache`` is absent. Use it when the cache must hold each
	block's K/V as if the blocks had been generated one at a time, so later
	blocks never leak into earlier ones. Absent: one causal block.

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	# The cache keeps lengths and page-table rows for every causal block of its
	# max_staged_tokens, in device tensors that commit() refreshes in place. A
	# shorter forward (a first or last chunk) uses the leading blocks; the slices are
	# views, so a captured graph keeps reading the live values.
	# The cache keeps lengths and page-table rows for every causal block of its
	# max_staged_tokens, in device tensors that commit() refreshes in place.

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	kv_cache.write_staged(self.layer_idx, k[0], v[0], causal_block_size)
	# Write ``k``/``v`` to the KV cache at ``staging_offset``.
	kv_cache.write_staged(self.layer_idx, k[0], v[0], causal_block_size)

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trtllm.py LGTM.

Posted suggestions on comment wording.
Overall, the attention backend wrapper as well as its interaction with the KV cache manager looks consistent to me. I'm adding approval from my side and will ping code owner for additional check & merge approvals.

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	# The only page size with shipped trtllm-gen paged context kernels: every paged
	# context cubin under kernels/trtllmGenKernels/fmha/cubin is a ``P32`` variant, and
	# log2(tokens per page) is part of the kernel hash, so any other value has no kernel
	# and the attention op refuses the configuration. Nothing in the tree exposes this
	# number; it lives in the cubin inventory only.
	# The only page size with shipped trtllm-gen paged context kernels: every paged
	# context cubin under kernels/trtllmGenKernels/fmha/cubin is a ``P32`` variant,
	# so any other value has no kernel and the attention op refuses the configuration.

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	per-block key counts the kernel reads are the cache's, rewritten in place by
	``commit``. So nothing here changes after a commit, and a CUDA graph captured
	around the forward replays correctly with no refresh. The host-side lengths
	the op also takes are upper bounds, fixed at the geometry's capacity.
	per-block key counts read by kernel are owned by the cache, rewritten in place by
	``commit``. So nothing here changes after a commit, and a CUDA graph captured
	around the forward replays correctly with no refresh. The host-side lengths taken
	by the op bear upper bound values, fixed at the geometry's capacity.

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Non-blocking:

Thanks for maintaining this metadata-caching mechanism. I'll try to improve how we handle metadata in #17449 later. In the future we'll try to revive that PR to hoist metadata management from backend code and couple it with the KV cache manager introduced by this PR.

This comment is just a side node. No action needed.

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	# host_past_key_value_lengths and the context total only bound the kernel's
	# work; the per-block lengths come from the device tensor above. The bound is
	# the pool, the most that can ever be resident on it: pin_tokens is not part of
	# the geometry, so a later rollout of this geometry may hold more than the
	# current one and still reuse this metadata and the graphs captured over it.
	# Actual per-block lengths come from the device tensor above. Use pool capacity
	# as the host upper bound so this metadata and captured graphs remain valid
	# when the same geometry is reopened with a longer pinned prefix.

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	"""Forget metadata built over caches that were shut down. Each entry holds its
	cache, so without this a model that builds a new cache per rollout would keep
	every old one alive. A merely closed cache keeps its metadata: it may be
	reopened, and graphs captured over it still read those buffers."""
	"""Forget metadata built over caches that were shut down.
	A merely closed cache keeps its metadata: it may be
	reopened, and graphs captured over it still read those buffers."""

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	seq_len: Number of real query tokens. Without ``kv_cache`` it equals
	``S``. With ``kv_cache`` it may be smaller: rows of ``q``/``k``/``v``
	past ``seq_len`` are padding added so the sequence splits evenly
	across ranks; they are neither written to the cache nor attended,
	and their output rows are zero.
	seq_len: Query length used for metadata and reshaping. Without ``kv_cache``,
	the Attention module supplies ``S``, including padding. With ``kv_cache``,
	the caller supplies the real query length, which may be smaller than
	``S``; trailing padding is neither cached nor attended and outputs zero.

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	causal_block_size: Keyword understood by the ``kv_cache`` path only. Cuts
	the new tokens into consecutive causal blocks: full attention within a
	block, causal across blocks. Use it when the cache must hold each
	block's K/V as if the blocks had been generated one at a time, so later
	blocks never leak into earlier ones. Absent: one causal block.
	causal_block_size: Specifies how the real tokens will be cut into consecutive
	causal blocks: full attention within a block, causal across blocks. Ignored if
	``kv_cache`` is absent. Use it when the cache must hold each
	block's K/V as if the blocks had been generated one at a time, so later
	blocks never leak into earlier ones. Absent: one causal block.

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	# q is the fused projection [1, S, H + 2*H_kv, D]: the kernel takes it as
	# it is and the cache takes strided K/V slices of it, so nothing is
	# re-concatenated.
	# ``q`` contains packed QKV [1, S, H + 2*H_kv, D]. the kernel takes it as
	# it is and the cache takes strided K/V slices of it.

q should be a tensor in this context so we should say it's fusedQkv tensor instead of fused projection? (fused projection reads to me like fused Norm-ReLU-Slice or something)

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	f"trtllm-gen ships paged context kernels for {TRTLLM_GEN_TOKENS_PER_PAGE}-token "
	f"pages only; the cache uses {kv_cache.tokens_per_page}. Build the cache with "
	f"tokens_per_page={TRTLLM_GEN_TOKENS_PER_PAGE} or use the CUDNN backend."
	f"The TRTLLM backend ships paged context kernels for "
	f"{TRTLLM_GEN_TOKENS_PER_PAGE}-token pages only; the cache uses "
	f"{kv_cache.tokens_per_page}. Build the cache with "
	f"tokens_per_page={TRTLLM_GEN_TOKENS_PER_PAGE} or use the CUDNN backend."